Video Transcoding Features

• Input monitoring - browse and monitor folders over FTP, SMB or local files
• Engine SDK - enables easy integration to any workflow
• Scalable through clustering - you can cluster several Episode Engines
• Easy deployment and notification - with intelligent metadata driven scripts
• Bumpers and trailers - add intro and outro movies to your content
• Transcode while ingest - with Pipeline
• Picture-in-Picture - add a watermark to your content as a picture, animation or
  even as a movie
• 10 bit 4.4.4 - support for formats like RED, DPX, ProRes 422, Uncompressed
• Closed captions - Pass-through of EIA-608 and EIA-708 in ATSC A/53, SCTE- 20 and VBI in-band Closed Captions when encoding MPEG-2 video; conversion of NTSC-CC types including VBI in-band to EIA-608 or SCTE-20
• Support for alpha channels
• Advanced deinterlace filters - produce the best possible progressive output
  even when the source material has been edited and cut
• Advanced standard conversions - hardware comparable
• 2-pass encoding - (H.264, WMV, MPEG2/4, H.263) for maximum quality
• Hinting (streaming) - according to IETF, ISMA and 3GPP
• Resizing and resampling algorithms - give the best quality for small-screen, low-
  bandwidth display devices and when upscaling from SD to HD
• Automatic input format detection - video codec, audio codec, color sampling,
  frame rate, pixel aspect, audio sampling
• Frame-rate conversion - NTSC to/from PAL: 3:2 pulldown, 2:3 pulldown
• Inverse telecine
• Fully configurable advanced color preprocessing filters - (black and white
  restoration, HSV and gamma correction, noise removal, image sharpening,
  ensuring the highest quality
• Advanced audio filtering - including normalize, balance, fade in/out, high/low pass
  and other advanced features
• Free SDK - powerful SDK enables seamless integration with your system

Episode Engine Pro adds:

• Split-and-Stitch® - distributed encoding for all output formats enables maximum transcoding speed
• High Availability option - for full robustness in cluster installations
• SNMP - System Management for network monitoring